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Make Money On The Internet – April 2007

I started John Chow dot Com almost a year and half ago. The intention was never to make money online from it. For the first nine months of the blog’s life, there was not one piece of advertising on it. I used the blog as my personal journal to do miscellaneous ramblings about stuff that I find interesting. One of those interesting topics happens to be making money on the Internet so an idea came to use this blog as a case study to show just how much money one can make by blogging.

April was a hard to gage month. Compared to March, I had one fewer day and I had server problems that added another lost day. However, that did not stop this blog from posting another record-breaking performance.

Total Blog Income For April 2007: $11,702.66

In just eight month as a moneymaking site, this blog has achieved Dot Com Mogul level income. It is certainly well pass what many people would consider a full time income, which was the original goal of this case study – part time blogging, full time income. Yes, John Chow dot Com is still a part time venture for me (it’s really a hobby). Here is the income breakdown.

I received a $500 gift from a sponsor in April but I did not include it in the total income because it was a gift and not cash. However, I wouldn’t have received the gift if I didn’t have the blog. Adding in the gift would bring the total April income to $12,202.66.

Blog traffic for April was 129,605 unique visitors viewing 266,300 pages. This is down from March because of the one less day and server problems. While it looks like the blog may never beat the 229,853 unique visitors and 360,967 page views posted back in October, this blog does in fact get higher traffic than back then. This is because over 4,000 people read this blog everyday from the full feed RSS. Add that into the equation and unique visitors swell to nearly 10,000 per day.

Blog advertising expenses for the month was $342.34 for SiteMatch Google ads to other bloggers and $223.74 for normal Google ads. SiteMatch ads expense went down because part way through the month, Problogger blocked my ads from showing up on his blog. Hey Darren! Don’t you love me anymore? 😥

Recommended Money Makers

As you can see from the above, this blog makes money using a bunch of different sources. You should never put all you eggs in one basket (especially Google’s). The more diverse your income streams, the better off you are. To help new bloggers out, I created my recommended moneymakers page. The page lists all the ad sources I use to make money online. I recommend you apply to all the ad networks listed.

May should be a very interesting month. We’re entering summer and that is normally low season when it comes to online advertising. Kids will be getting off school and families will be going on vacations. However, this blog is now a PageRank 6 and I’m about to raise my ReviewMe price to $400. Yes, it should be a very interesting month.

I bet that tons of the ReviewMe reviews that John does are found by people looking at ReviewMe.com. John is one of the most valuable sites listed there, if not the most valuable. Maybe John can shed some light.

John, the growth of this blog has been pretty incredible. I’m curious though, do you think any of that has been due to TTZ’s popularity? Granted you started this blog from scratch but how many new bloggers have assistant writers and a very popular forum as a foundation?

I want to make sure I don’t come across as critical in any way, I’m just trying to learn as much as possible (and hopefully emulate) from this blogs fantastic earning growth.

TTZ is well know in tech circles but not in blogging and certainly not for making money online. There is very little overlap. Most readers of TTZ don’t read this blog. The two sites cover completely different topics.

Your success will largely depend on your ability to create unique content and capturing the attention of your readers. Good luck.

The $4500 from Reviewme is truly astounding. That’s the one I’m most impressed with. I’m also quite surprised by the $1000 from Kontera. Granted that’s with significant pageviews, but the fact that they’re only a smidgen behind Adsense is a big surprise to me. Congrats John.

Well as you can see nearly 50% of the income is from Reviewme. That means John is getting paid to write posts in his blog every day. John is a true marketer as people are coming on his blog to read advertisments haha. Where as probloger is actually helpfull. There is no love John you provide no value but just advertisments on your blog and people are only coming on to see that you have made 10K and just dream it could be them from the same silly idea of “make money”.haha. Anyways congrats you have done a good job marketing paid for posts every day on your blog.

Mickno is one jealous boy.. 😆 John’s posted alot of helpful information about how to make money online, etc.,(Be thankful he’s not charging you money for it.) and to show support I think we can tolerate a few ReviewMe posts from him. It’s a give and take relationship..That’s how the world works.

I’am not jealous. I think he his excelent at marketing!! Well as long as there are people like you who think they are going to be making money from your blogs its all good. Johns got top spot in the niche “make money” and has got you on his income side haha.

All I can say s WOW 😯 I am so impressed. I never realized you could earn so much with a simple blog site. When is my Online Revenue Methods and Resources blog site going to have income like that? I am so jealous John.

By the way, congrats on moving from PR4 to PR6 John. Your blog site is just getting better and better everyday.

Wow.. I was speechless for a minute there about the figure for one month. That is just insane for one month income. I think I would be happy with 10% of that per month. Although I think I would be happier with just more visitors actually reading what I have to say…

John
I told you that you have missed something. Making money with AdSense, you cannot miss the AdSense referrals especially AdSense(a conversion of 250USD).

My blog(http://adsense-tw.com) which has only about 500 unique visitors per day. Guess what!! I just post a post(http://adsense-tw.com/archives/354) to show you my earning from AdSense referrral. Fomr January to March, I earned 1840USD from AdSense referral. It averages about 613USD a month .

Wow, another fantastic month. The ReviewMe stuff has really turned out to be the brunt of your earnings now (around 40%). Do you find your blog more work now that this much of your income comes from paid postings? Would you be writing other stuff if your didn’t have these, or would you just post that many less postings?

I would love to earn that much for a paid posting myself, but part of me feels that it does become more like “work” as well. Adsense and the other advertising methods are more like passive income because you can earn it from old articles and writing new articles on what you feel like.

How many hours a day do you think your work on this site now compared to October?

It’s not work. Most of the reviews are related to what I talk about. There has been a few time where I started writing about the product (Auction Ads for example) and found a ReviewMe for it after I wrote the post. Also, I don’t do all the reviews. My hours has actually being going down.

Hi John. That’s really an incredible amount. But on the other hand I think you have to show your investment too. That is the amount you spend on advertising your blog. Example I remember you ran a Google ad “Darren loves this blog. Find out why?” .

Not only advertising but other form of investment too. The time you spend on your blog is also an investment.

You need to read the full post. I stated my advertising cost in it. The time I spend on this blog works out to about 2 hours per day. The software that powers this blog is free. The theme is free. The blog is hosted for free. Total investment to start the blog was zero.

I think what John does best is trial and error, he isn’t afraid to jump in and try something new. Take the Agloco viewbar he just jumped in and started marketing it. Everyone else was saying but its not out yet why not wait till its out.

Some people who want John’s income from this blog aren’t willing to push it like John is. If you don’t do it you will never earn from it.

Hi John,
You have made a great deal out of a hobby man.I give you all credits for your ever growing graphs of income. 😛 And I am sure lot like me who just have started their toddler’s steps in bloggin world,will learn lot from you.

I liked your idea of being diverisifed rather being Google AdSense centric..

I dunno how you[thinkingblog] get it first in the comments always. Wow you are a keen follower.

11K in a month, wow thats simply amazing, how are you making your blog famous, we all would love to know. How did you make it to this heights this month, analyze it and have a post written, that would be cool.

$10,000 and below go to charity, if I’m not mistaken (the rest goes to his kid’s trust fund). The mere fact that he gives to these family oriented causes is a huge reason to celebrate John’s blogging efforts. A dot com mogul AND a philanthropist…quite a unique, this guy.

Indeed, John’s transparency is one of the reasons why I keep coming back. He holds nothing back; meanwhile you get your information straight and you know right away what The Man is talking about…pure evil genius, like I always say.

Im very interested about it…money making.I got a lot of time in doing so; however I dont know where to start can you please e-mail me guys on how to make money through internet or blogs…heres my email address: [email protected]

"How I Went From Zero to Over $100,000 a Month"

The Original Dot Com Mogul

John Chow, a damn fine person, friend of the community, Ultimate Fighting Championship contestant, member of the Save the Whales Foundation, the man who controls the black market on baby seal pelts and member of the probably yo’ daddy foundation...

John Chow rocketed onto the blogging scene when he showed the income power of blogging by taking his blog from making zero to over $40,000 per month in just two years.